I hold a D.Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and an MSc (Econ) in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

My work looks at the intersections between anthropologies of knowledge and social studies of science — in contexts of informal, guerrilla and frontier urbanism (in Latin American and Europe), and in knowledge-management institutions (research centres, management consulting firms, digital & new media labs).

Over the years, as I have been reflecting and writing about these sites, I have also developed a somewhat broader interest in the organization of ethnographic and anthropological knowledge as descriptive and theoretical forms.

For the past five years I have been studying the work of “free culture” urban activists in Madrid. I am interested in how such expressions of “free urbanism” compare with other accounts of informality in the city (auto-construction, makeshift urbanism, slum urbanism, etc.).

I have also developed an interest in the specific work of ‘prototyping’ that characterizes the development of many of these open-source projects. I am interested in the prototype as a figure of and design for contemporary complexity.

Bibliografía

Books

2016. (ed.) Prototyping cultures: art, science and politics in beta. London and New York: Routledge

2013. An anthropological trompe l’oeil for a common world. Oxford and New York: Berghahn

2001. The becoming of space: a geography of liminal practices of the city of Antofagasta, Chile. Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography in compliance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) of the University of Oxford

2005. ‘Landscaping history: nitrate mining in the Atacama desert in the 20th century’. In Mike Smith and Paul Hesse (eds.), 23 South: archaeology and environmental history of the southern deserts. National Museum of Australia, pp. 333-344

2004. ‘Teaching the field: the order, ordering, and scale of knowledge’. In David Mills and Mark Harris (eds.) Teaching rites and wrongs: the making of anthropologists. CSAP: Birmingham, pp. 145-162